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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 9h

yeah I couldn't have helped myself and I'd act like I haven't heard of any of them

"the guy from House? he made a play? is he still on House then?"

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 10h

governments get what they pay for

Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 10h

<writing the prompt>

no, HIS left side, and down into the neck but stop right there

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 10h

ok but making kirk a cyborg because, you know ..

.. that's lowkey hilarious actually

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 11h

ive been saying this about johnson since he first stepped into the office, because he was literally nobody before that: this guy's secrets run into deep pockets, and he's been prepped for all this since he was in school

he did not just happen into all this by virtue of trump, he's from before that

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 11h

this guy has been groomed to be this kind of snake for his whole life, folks

consider this guy declared zero accounts when he came into congress. no bank accounts, no savings, nothing

everything he is is owned by some shadowy entity he doesn't want you to get a look at

Screenshot of article snippet:

"Under assets on Speaker Johnson’s most recent financial disclosure report for 2022, it says “none disclosed.” No retirement plan, no mutual funds, no bank account. Actually, the Speaker’s office told Marketplace that he does have a personal bank account, but it’s exempt from House reporting rules because it doesn’t earn interest."

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 13h

a man with a mustache and a name tag that says mal

Alt: Ben Stiller as the doctor in Happy Gilmore mouthing "shhhhh" with his finger and mimicking slitting a throat

media.tenor.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 16h

blitzers pose in the picture + context is absolutely dead-on perfection; this is the kinda stuff that retires images

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 16h

the west especially likes their categories. books, genres, etc. a history book can't be a spiritual book can't be a humanist book, it's one or the other or it's schlock and pseudoscience. that's how the west views narrative too. and that's the biggest leverage people have for the bible as a cudgel.

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 16h

so you can never look at a piece of it and say "the Bible says this". you might as well look at a history book about Nazi Germany and say "history says eugenics is good actually". history and lessons aren't "good things" they're often the opposite

"read a book guy, this is how all narratives work"

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 16h

the predominant problem of people reading the Bible in any context, religious or historical or even just for finding gotchas, is that there Bible is intended as a set of lessons AND a historical document AND a spiritual document, _especially_ in the Old Testament but throughout the whole thing

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile debuts tonight on The Onion's YouTube channel at 7 p.m. ET.

Finally somebody will release some dang Epstein Files if you know what I'm sayin'!!!

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 17h

safe place to admit this: i never had a twitter account.

i mean not ever one time.

i came here from mastodon and went there from reddit and i'm back on a new mastodon account this morning 🤷‍♂️

Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 18h

that protest = May Day, France, 2017

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 18h

was just wondering a couple days ago when firefighters were gonna get involved

apropos of nothing you should all go look up images of that protest because they go HARD. AS. FUCK.

time magazine, check it

but im not gonna catch a ban for posting them because GODDAMN

JD @postscripted.bsky.social · 19h

This brought me joy—had to share: Chicago fire dept chases ICE away

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

that's an extra from the UK version of Ghosts

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

they are SUPER comfy

Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 10d

new shirt day!

lovely print by @moxiest.art

didn't realize the phrase on the arm until I got it ❤️❤️

A black T-shirt with a guillotine drawn out by shapes and letters from a typewriter

Writing on the arm reads :
reject
modernity
embrace
tradition
❤️mox

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

good enough excuse to repeat my hottest take i guess

Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · Jul 19

Man pushing domino's that get exceedingly larger meme.

Bottom text: "Bioware caves to a toxic harassment campaign online and releases new Mass Effect 3 endings"

Top text: "Global Fascism Returns"

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

TPMs are in TONS of devices, I was coming in to ask the same question basically.

Are you SURE your hardware can't? Open your BIOS and there's a strong chance you can just enable TPM and then Win11 installs without problems.

I mean unless you're against Windows morally which, I mean, alright.

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

Hilariously before WW2, German was taught in American schools like Spanish is today. Even more than Spanish is in fact.

More communities in America spoke exclusively German than any other second language. Same for German language newspapers in the States.

We distanced ourselves _after_ WW2.

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

it's a pendulum baby, and I'm here for it

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

in other words it's totally predictable that a center left elected last year is going to be seen as not progressive enough by the loud online folks (predominantly millennials and younger)

and they're right, I'll say that too

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

hottake: the current era is dramatically shifting the Overton window 🎶 to the left 🎶 among millennials and younger and the combination of that shift and the abruptness of it is going to demonstrate as people demanding more progressive policies out of nominally centrist electeds

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 19h

believe it or not, same guy